A previous statement has said that live performances wouldn’t be impacted upon by Harris’s loss as he doesn’t use the laptop live, but a Harris who was talking about “setting airport officials on fire” according to the free London dailies, is clearly in no mood to entertain guests at the moment.

He did, though, apologise to fans on his website, saying: “We'll be back as a band for some festivals and then I'll be spending the rest of the year in my new purple studio, making the album.”

Re-making the album, the whole thing, unless a £750 reward entices it from a thief or the baggage handlers eventually find the missing laptop.